Programme for 2024

Events marked with a map are field trips. Day Field Trips are nearly always held on a Sunday.

All lectures start at 7.15pm. Meetings are a hybrid of in person meetings at Plas Dolerw Newtown and via Zoom (link supplied to members prior to the meetings)

Date Event
January 17th

AGM

February 21st

Guest Speaker - Chris Darmon:The North Atlantic Igneous Province

March 20th

Guest speaker - Dr Joe Botting: The Castle Bank biota-Wales' answer to the Burgess Shales?

April 17th

Guest Speaker- Karen Parks:Northern Ireland - Travel through geological time to see a range of fieldwork sites with wonderful geodiversity

April 21st

Fair Weather Field Trip

May 14th

Guest Speaker - James Creswell:A geological journey through Oman **Note this is a Tuesday meeting**

May 19th

Fair Weather Field Trip

June 19th

Guest Speaker- Dr Rob Crossley:Is Anglesey the most geologically diverse 710 km2 in our solar system?

June 23 rd

Fair Weather field trip

July 17th

Evening Field Trip

August 21st

Dr Geoff Steel: The Geology of Islay and Jura

September 13-16th

summer Weekend: Lleyn Peninsula - Leader Dr Rob Crossley

September 18th

Dr Chris Simpson:A Geology trip across two Scottish Terranes

September 22nd

Fair Weather Field trip

October 16th

Roy McGurn: Walking with trilobites

November 20th

Member’s Evening